Saturday, September29
8:00 AM Shuttle from Hancock hotel to Michigan Tech Memorial Union
8:00—9:00AM Coffee and muffins, Alumni Room, Memorial Union
8:45 AM Welcome, Symposium Committee
9:00—10:00AM
Session 1a Contestations over Loyalties and Identities
- Conflicted Loyalties: Austro-Hungarian Immigrants in Michigan and the Great War — Robert Goodrich (Northern Michigan University)
- A Tale of Two Princips: Contested Memory and National Identity in the Former Yugoslavia — Christina Morus (Stockton University) and Gordon Coonfield (Villanova University)
- Population, the Lessons of War, and the Promise of Peace— Kathleen Tobin (Purdue University Northwest)
Session 1b The Art and Legacy of WWI Propaganda
- The Sights and Sounds of WWI Propaganda Posters— Jessy Ohl (The University of Alabama)
- A Heartland Artist as Prisoner: The End Of Guy Brown Wiser’s Air War — Doug Lantry (National Museum of theU.S. Air Force)
- Propaganda as Public Relations Antecedent: The Complex Legacy of the Creel Commission — Christopher McCollough (Columbus State University)
10:15—11:15AM
Session 2a Bringingit hometotheMidwest
- Oshkosh on the Home Front: Activities and Attitudes During World War I — Amy Fels (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
- ‘Lest We Forget’: Remembering World War I in Wisconsin, 1919-1945 — Leslie Bellais (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
- Patriotic Acts of Copper Country Children in the Great War— Seth Dahl (Finlandia University)
Session 2bDepicting war in the arts
- An American Abroad: Perceptions of Americans in Buchan’s WWI Thriller, Greenmantle — Peter Faziani (Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Jackson College, Michigan)
- Art and Activisim in Abel Gance’s Film, J’accuse: Revisiting Anti-war Sentiment in French Art and Society a Century Later — Ramon Fonkoue (Michigan Tech)
- “Pour la France ! Pour ma famille !”: Haunting War Legacies in Rouaud’s Champs d’honneurs – Dany Jacob (Michigan Tech)
1:15—2:15PM
Session 3a Shifts in technology and law
- Electrical Communications Impacts During the Great War and Impacts on the Interwar Period — Martha Sloan (Michigan Tech)
- American Chemical Companies: World War I and Beyond — Jason Szilagyi (Central Michigan University)
- Impact of theFirst World War on India—Imrana Begum (NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan)
Session 3b Exhibiting war
- ‘Your Duty on Display’: The Allied War Exhibition in Chicago, the State Council of Defense, and the Role of the State in Defining American Identity — Josh Fulton (Northern Illinois University)
- The Allied Exhibitionary Forces: From Encouragement to Commemoration of WWI — Steven Walton (Michigan Tech
- WWI Propaganda Poster Fluidity — Sarah Price (The University of Alabama)
2:30—3:45PM
Session 4a Taking the long view
- The Great War and Modern Homosexuality: Transatlantic Crossings — Chet DeFonso (Northern Michigan University)
- Henry Ford‘s Dearborn Independent: A Reflection of Post-WWI Rise of Anti-Semitism in America — Catherine Wadle (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany)
- World War One & Africa: Contesting History, Nation,and Identity in ‘Western Togoland’ — G. Edzordzi Agbozo (Michigan Tech)
- ‘The War Has Ended; the Doors Are Open Again’:Baha‘l Western-Women Pilgrimage to the Holy Land After the Great War — Shay Rozen (Avshlom Institute)
Session 4b Gender and the great war
- This Mad Brute’: Postwar Male Violence and the Pathological Public Sphere — Rebecca Frost (Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College)
- Men, Military, and the Law: An Examination of Conscription During World War I and Its Legal Challenges — Victoria Stewart (Northwest Florida State College University)
- Recalling the Trenches from the Club Window: Contrasting Perspectives in Dorothy Sayers and P.G. Wodehouse — Laura Fiss (Michigan Tech)